NAME #69
الْقَادِرُ
The Powerful
Al-Qadir
The Powerful
The One who has power over all things, possessing unlimited ability to accomplish whatever He wills.
Source
En'âm 6:65
Virtue
Al-Qadir declares that Allah has power over everything and that nothing can resist Him. In Surah al-Baqarah 2:284 He says: 'Allah forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills; Allah has power over all things.' The servant who reflects on this name sees what they had thought impossible as possible with Allah—healing for the sick, repayment for a hopeless debt, the softening of a closed heart. Al-Qadir says 'Be,' and it is. All the knots of life become a simple decision in Al-Qadir's hand.
Related Hadith
In a sacred hadith Allah, Exalted is He, said: 'I am as My servant thinks of Me; as he knows Me, so I deal with him.'
[Buhârî, Tevhîd, no. 7405]
